King James Bible Dictionary

STOCK, noun [G., a stem, a staff, a stick, a block. This word coincides with stake, stick, stack; that which is set or fixed.]

1. The stem or main body of a tree or other plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the origin and support of the branches. Job 14:8.

2. The stem in which a graft is inserted, and which is its support.

The cion overruleth the stock quite.

3. A post; something fixed, solid and senseless.

When all our fathers worshipd stocks and stones.

4. A person very stupid, dull and senseless.

Lets be no stoics, nor no stocks.

5. The handle of any thing.

6. The wood in which the barrel of a musket or other fire-arm is fixed.

7. A thrust with a rapier. [Not in use.]

8. A cravat or band for the neck.

9. A cover for the leg. [Now stocking.]

10. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitors of a family and their direct descendants; lineage; family. From what stock did he spring?

Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock from Dardanus--

Men and brothern, children of the stock of Abraham--Acts 13:26.

11. A fund; capital; the money or goods employed in trade, manufactures, insurance, banking, etc.; as the stock of a banking company; the stock employed in the manufacture of cotton, in making insurance and the like. stock may be individual or joint.

12. Money lent to government, or property in a public debt; a share or shares of a national or other public debt, or in a company debt. The United States borrow of the bank or of individuals, and sell stock bearing an interest of five, six or seven per cent. British stocks are the objects of perpetual speculation.

13. Supply provided; store. Every one may be charitable out of his own stock So we say, a stock of honor, a stock of fame.

Add to that stock which justly we bestow.

14. In agriculture, the domestic animals or beasts belonging to the owner of a farm; as a stock of cattle or of sheep. It is also used for the crop or other property belonging to the farm.

15. Living beasts shipped to a foreign country; as, a brig sailed yesterday with stock on deck. The cattle are called also live stock

16. In the West Indies, the slaves of a plantation.

17. Stocks, plural A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, in which the legs of criminals are confined by way of punishment.

18. The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

19. The stock of an anchor is the piece of timber into which the shank is inserted.

20. In book-keeping, the owner or owners of the books.

STOCK, verb transitive

1. To store; to supply; to fill; as, to stock the mind with ideas. Asia and Europe are well stocked with inhabitants.

2. To lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.

3. To put in the stocks. [Little used.]

4. To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.

5. To supply with domestic animals; as, to stock a farm.

6. To supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass.

7. To suffer cows to retain their milk for 24 hours or more, previous to sale.

To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

STOCKADE, noun [See Stoccade.]

1. In fortification, a sharpened post or stake set in the earth.

2. A line of posts or stakes set in the earth as a fence or barrier.

STOCKADE, verb transitive TO surround or fortify with sharpened posts fixed in the ground.

STOCKADED, participle passive Fortified with stockades.

STOCKADING, participle present tense Fortifying with sharpened posts or stakes.

STOCKBROKER, noun [stock and broker.] A broker who deals in the purchase and sale of stocks or shares in the public funds.

STOCK-DOVE, noun [stock and dove.] The ring-dove.

The stock dove is the wild pigeon of Europe, [Columbus oenas, ] long considered as the stock of the domestic pigeon, but now regarded as a distinct species. The ring-dove is the Columba palumbus.

STOCK-FISH, noun [stock and fish.] Cod dried hard and without salt.

STOCK-GILLYFLOWER, noun A plant, a species of Cheiranthus; sometimes written stock July flower.

STOCKING, noun [from stock.] A garment made to cover the leg.

STOCKING, verb transitive To dress in stockings.

STOCKISH, adjective Hard; stupid; blockish. [Little used.]

STOCK-JOBBER, noun [stock and job.] One who speculates in the public funds for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks.

STOCK-JOBBING, noun The act of art of dealing in the public funds.

STOCK-LOCK, noun [stock and lock.] A lock fixed in wood.

Feet fastened in, as a punishment
Job 13:27; Job 33:11; Proverbs 7:22

In prisons
Jeremiah 20:2; Acts 16:24

(An instrument of punishment, consisting of two beams, the upper one being movable, with two small openings between them, large enough for the ankles of the prisoner.

ED.) The term "stocks" is applied in the Authorized Version to two different articles one of which answers rather to our pillory, inasmuch as the body was placed in a bent position, by the confinement of the neck and arms as well as the legs while the other answers to our "stocks," the feet alone being confined in it. The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the first sort, (Jeremiah 20:2) which appears to have been a common mode of punishment in his day, (Jeremiah 29:26) as the prisons contained a chamber for the special purpose, termed "the house of the pillory." (2 Chronicles 16:10) (Authorized Version "prison-house"). The stocks, properly so called, are noticed in (Job 13:27; 33:11; Acts 16:24) The term used in (Proverbs 7:22) (Authorized Version "stocks") more properly means a fetter.

STOCKS. [See under Stock.]

STOCK-STILL, adjective [stock and still.] Still as a fixed post; perfectly still.

Our preachers stand stock-still in the pulpit.

STOCKY, adjective [from stock.] Thick and firm; stout. A stocky person is one rather thick than tall or corpulent; one whose bones are covered well with flesh, but without a prominent belly.